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Stanley James Thurston was not provided basic training. After enlistment, he was sent to a pigeon outfit [Annotator's...

Richard Scheerer does not recall hearing any news about D-Day prior to crossing the Channel. The first night he sat...

[Annotator's Note: Wallace Yip, Sr. was drafted in 1943.] Congress started drafting 18 year olds who registered [...

A tech sergeant [Annotator's Note: stationed with Irvin Kennedy in the 401st Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment...

Winnecken Gerhard was sent to Normandy around 15 May 1944, only a few weeks prior to the D-Day invasion [Annotator's...

Christopher Blake [Annotator's Note: a novelist and playwright who served in Europe with the 6th Tank Destroyer Group]...

Walter Halloran spent his first night in France in an apple orchard [Annotator’s Note: Halloran had landed that morning...

Gilbert Clift was at Camp Maxey [Annotator's Note: in Paris, Texas] for weeks without any idea where they were headed...

Edward Bonfoy Giller, Jr. and his unit [Annotator's Note: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group, 66th Fighter Wing...

The first combat jump Norman William Waldman and his regiment [Annotator's Note: 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...

The Hurtgen Forest was thick so they [Annotator's Note: Roland Chaisson and the rest of the 1st Infantry Division] didn...

Raymond A. Reed was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He moved to Summerville, New Jersey when he was three years old....

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